MaGreenLife

MaGreenLife wrote: We have developed a prototype for an application, that rewards the user for climate friendly behavior, via virtual points, achievements or maybe even real-world goodies like low priced public transport tickets. So that the change of the daily routine becomes more easy and makes fun. We want to bring people together and provide leaderboards, so that they can compete against each other. We want to support the local economy with self-conscious customers, who are being rewarded for their environmentally-friendly shopping. And we can also help the local government to get in touch with users to gather new ideas for their important work, so that there is a way from the city to the users and from the users back to the city... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Feniks

Feniks wrote: Feniks is founded by five enthusiast entrepreneurs from ghent, belgium. The start-up is situated at the end of the ideation phase whereas the first prototype is being developed. Nowadays the building sector is characterized by a deficit of materials and production processes that fit in a circular economy and the demand is climbing fast. Therefor feniks wants to be a major part of the foundation of the changing of the building sector into a circular economy. Together with one of europe's most prestigious universities, the university of ghent, we developed a composite that will be used in a wide range of building activities. By combining two gigantic industrial waste streams into a new revolutionary competitive building product... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Belgium

Accelerating Climate Finance

Emmi wrote: The financial community has an enormous negative exposure to climate change (banks bank agriculture, climate change occurs, agriculture fails, banks lose money). . For the market to respond effectively to the growing climate risks, carbon risks must be fully identified, quantified and priced. . The market is, however, currently unable to quantify carbon risks due primarily to the existence of multiple structural and process barriers. These barriers have created political and trust-related risks that have stymied climate action for the last three decades. Now, emerging technologies offer a way forward. . We propose emmi as the decentralised governance platform that is needed to overcome the structural barriers inherent to the status quo... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

Environmentally friendly last-mile delivery solutions

Currently last-mile solutions are mainly done by vans and trucks. Velove Bikes AB seek to provide cities of the future with a sustainable replacement by using small and efficient electric cargo bikes with a low energy consumption. Utilizing the principles of containerization by implementation of city-hubs where products are transferred from larger containers to the electrical bikes, the solutions allow for large-scale delivery, reducing automotive traffic while increasing the efficiency for the delivery industry.

Sweden

Plantopia

Plantzilla wrote: We build a sensor bundle that monitors plant vitals like soil moisture, sun light, humidity, and temperature. The sensor bundle communicates with an app that displays the information in an appealing interface and informs the user on the required steps to bring the plant to a better state, or maintain its state. The hardware is based on a microcontroller with the relevant sensors, and the user interface is a web based application. A pump is also integrated to allow for automatic irregation of the plants by avoiding over- and under-irregation and maintaining a desirable level of soil moisture... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Delivering bio-alkanol gel fuel

Alkagel Ltd wrote: This innovation addresses agro/biowaste conversion and therefore exploits fruit peelings and poultry-derived eggshells as raw materials to deliver economical and renewable biofuel capable of significantly lowering wood-based fuels, parafin and gas-based fuel dependency by rural communities in kenya,uganda and tanzania. Biofuels play significant roles in decarburization of our future energy needs and act to mitigate deleterious impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. The bio-alkanol gel fuel has orange peals as a raw material. Orange fruits accumulate the monoterpene limonene in their oil glands (badawy et al. 2017). Bio-akanol gel repels mosquitoes since d-limonene is incorporated into the bio-alkanol gel fuel... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Kenya

CupLe

CupLe wrote: We are cuple, read as couple. There is a reason for it. We create a new, smart, circular eco-system where single use packaging becomes obsolete. We make a smart machine and a smart bottle (yes, they work in pair). We create a smart bottle that can be a cup and a bottle (cuple again!). . And we want to couple business and responsibility of both consumers and producers. We aim to create our bottle mainly of retrieved and recycled plastics and/or metal, we are designing a low-energy consuming, recyclable and modular smart vending machine, and a back-end that will support you to seamlessly take any drink with your bottle. Imagine that your bottle is your wallet, and our machine is your fountain... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

High efficiency dual hybrid combustion engine

The NESS solution is based on a cost effective retrofittable dual hybrid (both kinetic- & heat energy recovery). The product is primarily aimed towards automotive & commercial vehicle engines, which when installed results in reduction of CO2 and other emissions by increasing the overall efficiency of the engine combustion. Efficiency is increased through the power savings from the NESS attachment. The retrofit can lead to more sustainable consumption of fuels in the future.

Sweden

BeniT - The Industrial symbiosis accelerator

BendiT wrote: We have created a minimal viable product (mvp) that currently lists materials (secondary products) from the companies resource pipelines and thus offering other companies to place an order. The mvp was build using r language and the data is stored in mongo database. The code developed during 40 hr climathon is deposited in a public repository - github (https://github. Com/gsrnivas/bendit). If we get an opportunity, we aim to continue working developing this platformby adding morefunctionalities and have a production ready application in 6 months time... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Worm-box that transforms domestic waste

Worm Revolution wrote: We live in a world of resources extraction and waste: 99% of our food is not organic, so it requires chemical inputs that come from mining. Moreover, 99 percent of the stuff we buy is trashed within 6 months. Luckily worms are our allies to solve this issue!. With our worm compost bin, we help citizens to transform easily organic waste into natural fertilizers. By reducing their waste footprint, our customers produce a high value resource to grow their own healthy food, to share or to sell. . Our product is easy to use, hygienic and fun. It is made of non-treated wood and is manufactured digitally (with an automatic wood cutter), allowing to produce it locally and at a custom size... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal